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Unions plan for national rail strike as job cuts loom
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Rail unions are drawing up plans for a national strike as job cuts loom across the industry.
The RMT is preparing to ballot its members for industrial action, with the union anticipating compulsory redundancies are highly probable at train operating companies and Network Rail.
Such redundancies would mean “trains are coming to a halt”, said the TSSA union after it failed to get assurances over jobs.
Unions have been in talks since June over plans to reduce costs in the industry. While broad voluntary redundancy schemes have been introduced, negotiations have taken place under an agreement to rule out forced job cuts until 31 December. Pay rises are also yet to be agreed, with inflation rising rapidly.
Train operators have been told by the
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